68 G, King — Materials for a Flora of iJie Malayan Peninsula. [STo. 1, 
Penakg ; WalUcJi (Cat. n. 5621) ! Perak ; Kinta, Kumtler 7038 ! 
Singapore; Chan Clm Ka^g, Ridley 20751 Distrid. Java (Forbes n. 
493!) 
6, MucuHA GIGANTEA DC Prodr, II, 4Q5. A long very dencler 
climber sometimes i'eticliing 250 feet f with slendei' glabrous branches. 
Leaves 5-9 in. long ; leafli^ts 3, subcoriaceoiis dark green, dull, glabrous 
on both aui'faces ; obioug cuspidate, base of tei-mitjal cuaeate of lateral 
obliquely roundetl, 4-5 in. loiig, 2"5 in wide, petiole glabrous »5 in. long 
stipels subulate "15 in., stipules linear '2 in. long. Lijhresceuee a peudnlgua 
urn bell iforra corymb terminating a akuder glabrous peduncle 4-18 in- 
long and bearing near its apex usually 3 socnetimes 5-7 small projecting 
puberaloas node's each emittittg 3-5 slender readii!y tlisarticnlating grey- 
pubescent pedicels '75 in. long ; bnicts and braetcoles both minute and 
Tery eai'ly deeiduons. Calyx '5 iti. long green with a few pungent 
"bristles, tube i-ather cylindrie "5 in. across, teeth all veiy short the upper 
wide subtruncate, the other three in bud shortly tiiangular a t length 
obsolete. OoroUa sickly greenish-yellow or white 125-i'5 in. long, keel 
not abruptly inflexed at tip; wings 1-1*25 in., standard '75 in. long 'tj in. 
wide. Pod broadly winged down both sutures faces smooth or with 
oblique cross ridges but never distinct plaits • 3'5-6 in. long, 2 in. across, 
clothed with deciduous j^eilow-brown irritating bristles ; seeds 2-4, 
Wall. Cat, 5619; W. & A. Prodr. 254; Wight in Hook. Bot. llhc. 11, 
351, Supph t. 14; Miq. Flor. ]nd. Bat. 1, 213; Bak. in Flor. Brit. 
Ind. Hi 18G. M. corymhosa Gmh. in. Wall, Cat. 5622. Doliclios gigantetw 
Willd. Sp. PI. HI, 1041, Garpopogm ^iganteum Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54 ■ 
rior, Ind. Ill, 286. Sliwlohium giganfenm Knntze Rev. Gen. Plaot. I, 
208. Zooj^hthaimum gigmiteum Pmn MSS. 
Akdamans; Coco Group, Prain ! Middle Andaman, iiHrz.' South 
Andaman^ Liehig f Kiirz 1 Man ! Little Andaman, Prain ! al ways clo.se to 
salt-water creeks or in Man grove- swamps. Nai'condam, near sea beach, 
Prain I Peraic ; Seortechini ! Paitang ; Eidky 1227! DiSTRin. A littoral 
species on Indian, Indo-Chinese, Malayan and Polynesian Coststs. 
SuBGEN. 2. SmoLOBiDM. Annual climbers; seeds ovoid with a 
small lateral hilum. 
6. MucuxA PRORtENS DO. Prodr. 11, 405. A slender annual climb- 
er with adpressed-pubescent branches at length glabrescent. Leaver 
6-9 in. long ; leaflets 3, meiiibranons ovate-rhomboid, gr-eeti glabi-esccnt 
above grey-silky and lustrous beneath, the lateral pair very obliqno 
truncate at base, all 3-5 in. long 2-3 in. wide ; petioles 2' 5-4 5 in. long, 
ad pressed silky, petiolules *2 in. long, etipels '15 in. long subulate, 
stipules lanceolate "2 in. long, Injlorescence of short-ped uncled racemes 
varying from 1 in. to 1 foot iu length and from 3-30-M., drooping, rachis 
